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Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.

Jocko Willink

Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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Bad Goodness Issue
A leader must lead but also be ready to follow. Sometimes, another member of the team—perhaps a subordinate or direct report—might be in a better position to develop a plan, make a decision, or lead through a specific situation.
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Decision Development Leadership Team
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?
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Acceptance Generosity Life Myself Philosophy
Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.
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Control Discipline Freedom Result Time
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Action Animal Connection Human Learning
A leader must care about the troops, but at the same time the leader must complete the mission, and in doing so there will be risk and sometimes unavoidable consequences to the troops.
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Care Leadership Risk Time
Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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Business Comfortable Leadership Risk Understand War World
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership

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